Of the 831 players expected at the 2022 World Cup, 54 of them will be Ligue 1 ambassadors. All clubs except AC Ajaccio have seen at least one of their players leave for Qatar this week.
The French club with the most Globalists is, unsurprisingly, PSG: eleven Parisians will play in the World Cup, including the inevitable Lionel Messi, Neymar and Kylian Mbappé.
Package with the Blues, Presnel Kimpembe is not one of these 55 elected.
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Rennes (8), Monaco (6) and Marseille (4) also have many players called up to Qatar, even if OM will not see Amine Harit there, injured in his knee last Sunday and forfeited with Morocco.
Behind these four clubs, there is Lens with three representatives.
The others only have one or two.
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And by country?
It is, logically, France which is the most represented with 6 Ligue 1 players. It is closely followed by Morocco, Ghana and Senegal (5).
In total, 21 of the 32 countries qualified for the World Cup have at least one member of the French championship.
Including some big nations like Argentina, Brazil, Spain or Portugal.
The list of Ligue 1 players at the World Cup
Argentina (2):
Nicolas Tagliafico (Lyon), Lionel Messi (Paris SG)
Belgium (3):
Arthur Theate, Jérémy Doku (Rennes), Loïs Openda (RC Lens)
Brazil (2):
Marquinhos, Neymar (Paris SG)
Cameroon (4):
Simon Ngapandouetnbu (Marseille), Christopher Wooh (Rennes), Jean-Charles Castelletto (Nantes), Karl Toko Ekambi (Lyon)
Canada (2):
Ike Ugbo (Troyes), Jonathan David (Lille)
Costa Rica (1):
Keylor Navas (Paris SG)
Croatia (1):
Lovro Majer (Rennes)
Denmark (1):
Kasper Schmeichel (Nice)
Ecuador (1):
Jackson Porozo (Troyes)
Spain (1):
Carlos Soler (Paris SG)
United States (1):
Timothy Weah (Lille)
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France (6):
Steve Mandanda (Rennes), Axel Disasi, Youssouf Fofana (Monaco), Jordan Veretout, Mattéo Guendouzi (Marseille), Kylian Mbappé (Paris SG)
Ghana (5):
Alexander Djiku (Strasbourg), Alidu Seidu, Salis Abdul Samed (Clermont), Gideon Mensah (Auxerre), Kamaldeen Sulemana (Rennes)
Japan (3):
Eiji Kawashima (Strasbourg), Takumi Minamino (Monaco), Junya Ito (Reims)
Morocco (5):
Achraf Dari (Brest), Achraf Hakimi (Paris SG), Azzedine Ounahi, Sofiane Boufal (Angers), Zakaria Aboukhlal (Toulouse)
Wales (2):
Joe Rodon (Rennes), Aaron Ramsey (Nice)
Poland (2):
Mateusz Wieteska (Clermont), Przemyslaw Frankowski (Lens)
Portugal (3):
Nuno Mendes, Danilo Pereira, Vitinha (Paris SG)
Senegal (5):
Alfred Gomis (Rennes), Pape Gueye, Bamba Dieng (Marseille), Ismail Jakobs, Krepin Diatta (Monaco)
Switzerland (2):
Jonas Omlin (Montpellier), Breel Embolo (Monaco)
Tunisia (2):
Montassar Talbi (Lorient), Wahbi Khazri (Montpellier)
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